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Through gravitational lensing , which uses the gravitational effects to distort the galaxy's light, the team was able to magnify the distant region nearly 30 times for a better view. "I. Lens Modeling and Source Reconstruction" - said in the statement, and added that the galaxy would have seemed perfectly ordinary to Hubble were it not magnified by gravitational lensing. Read More »

Ingram, one of the best players at Summer League, played only in the Lakers' opening game. "He obviously played well in camp, but that was next level stuff he was doing out there". He scored, handed out nice assists and provided some great defense as well. Caruso finished with 18 points on 7-of-9 shooting (4-of-5 on 3s), nine assists, four steals and just two turnovers in his 30 minutes of action. Read More »

LG has released a teaser video for their new LG Q6 smartphone which you can see below, the handset is rumored to come with a 5.4 inch display with a Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. Other features of the Q6 being highlighted by LG include the metal frame, which is a 7000 series aluminum that LG touts as being "ultra-strong", and a 3,000mAh battery that LG subjected to more than 20 tests. Read More »

Two bunkers have been converted into quarters that replicate living in a space habitat, minus the zero gravity, and the whole set-up is called "Yuegong-1" (Lunar Palace-1). "If you spend a long time in this type of environment it can create some psychological problems", said Liu. The current batch of volunteers is the second to undergo the experiment, but the first batch was in the facility for a relatively much shorter 60 days. Read More »

The second study was more novel, as it focused on non-white populations. Lead author Dr Veronica Setiawan, from the University of Southern California, said: "We can not say drinking coffee will prolong your life, but we see an association". Read More »

The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno's sixth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops. Eleven minutes and 33 seconds later, Juno will be directly above the Great Red Spot , which itself protrudes above the rest of the clouds. Read More »

At this point, we don't know if there will be a "deluxe" version that will include Early Access or not. GoNintendo spotted a listing for an Austrian retail chain showing its availability on Nintendo's newest console, but nothing was confirmed or commented on until now. Read More »

It features the low to high range specifications. The alleged Xiaomi X1 is supposed to run on the Snapdragon 660 chipset and will feature four cameras. Still, there is no confirmation regarding it. The regular variant will come with 4GB RAM with 64GB internal storage priced at 1,999 Yuan or 2,299 Yuan, 4GB RAM with 128GB internal storage priced at 2,499 Yuan ot 2,799 Yuan. Read More »

We're gradually learning that smart home devices can be quite valuable for police. "The unexpected use of this new technology to contact emergency services has possibly helped save a life", the County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales later said in a statement. Read More »

You can check out the whole stream archive on Twitch , or watch the rest of the videos on the Games Done Quick YouTube channel . Then, with each year, the event started growing in both popularity and the amount of money it gathered, until it reached its current size. Read More »

He also said that they allegedly indulged in immoral activities in the villages. Making this revelation, the Inspector General of Police, J&K, Munir Khan said that they have arrested Sandeep from Muzzafarnagar and he is now being questioned. Read More »

Through her extensive research she found that potatoes could be turned into flour after they were cooked, crushed and dried. Google said: "The Swedish scientist brought potatoes, then a greenhouse curiosity, to the people". Making alcohol from potatoes involves mashing the vegetables to release the starch; adding enzymes to convert starches into sugars; and fermenting and distilling the mixture. Read More »

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea lashed out Sunday at the United States for deploying two strategic bombers to the Korean Peninsula to participate in military drills, describing the move as a "provocation" that could lead to the outbreak of a nuclear war. Read More »

Stroll is now tied for 11th in the driver standings with Nico Hulkenberg (18 points ). Daniel Ricciardo picked up his fifth successive podium as he finished third in his Red Bull Racing vehicle, with Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari completing the top five. Read More »

It takes the moon 29.5 days to complete an orbit around the Earth. That's more than the average distance of 238,855 miles - so the moon is ever so slightly smaller than average tonight. Ancient tribes named July's full moon due to the frequent thunderstorms in the month. THUNDER MOON In many parts of the US this is the stormiest month of the year. Read More »

The road is closed and the ambulance service says there are "numerous resources" on the scene. The calendar on the school's website suggests a trip had been planned for Friday to Birmingham's Botanical Gardens and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Read More »

The Kansas City Royals are beginning to look like a challenger in the American League Central. LOS ANGELES - Justin Turner hit two home runs and Clayton Kershaw threw a complete game to become baseball's first 14-game victor this season as the Dodgers reached the All-Star break with a 5-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals Sunday afternoon. Read More »

Guangzhou Evergrande midfielder Paulinho has agreed personal terms with Barcelona , according to Spanish publication Sport (via Teamtalk ). "The clause in my contract is €40m and I believe Barca offered €20m and that Guangzhou rejected the offer", he told Brazilian outlet Band on Sunday. Read More »

India's last tour of Sri Lanka was two years ago in August 2015 when they played a Test series which they won 2-1. Meera Srinivasan writes in The Hindu that Sri Lankan fishermen who had been denied access to the sea by both LTTE and armed forces for many decades, find bottom-trawling a huge challenge. Read More »

He had crashed twice while wearing the yellow jersey, first in an incident which also brought Froome down on stage two and secondly in a pile-up in Mondorf-les-Bains, moments before the crash which ended Mark Cavendish's participation in the Tour. Read More »

The Spaniard hit a five-under-par round of 67 for the second successive day at the Portstewart Golf Club to move on to -17 overall. "But I know what I did at Torrey Pines, both good and bad". Frenchman Julien Quesne and Scott Hend of Australia made best use of the sun-drenched conditions by equalling the course record with eight-under-par 64s. Read More »

While it was originally meant to launch in October, it's now been rescheduled for a vague "end of Q4 2017", according to Brendan Greene , who you might know better as PlayerUnknown . Despite being an Early Access release on Steam , it's capture millions of players and quickly became one of the most watched games on Twitch. This is why we're giving a launch window rather than an exact date. Read More »

Aaron Judge , a 25-year old who appeared in 27 games last year, has broken Joe DiMaggio's 71-year old record for home runs by a New York Yankees rookie. Judge went 1-for-4 with an RBI in the loss. Not only has Judge been smashing homers easily, he has been spraying the baseball consistently. Judge has a higher batting average, OBP and slugging. Read More »

He has been gaining momentum on grass, however. After his straight sets victory at Wimbledon Thursday in the second round, Djokovic was asked about McEnroe's words and responded. "It was the first match this year on Court One. He's going to get better every day and that is a pretty scary proposition if he keeps going". It would be natural to assume Federer has nothing to lose at Wimbledon after everything he has accomplished in his career - but he's not viewing this tournament or any ... Read More »

Joint Operations Command spokesperson Yahia Rasoul said the security forces were fighting for the last few meters in Mosul - the main Islamic State (IS) stronghold - in the past three years. Flalah al-Wardani, commander of the 1st Brigade of the elite Iraqi force. Earlier, a top United Nations official for Iraq's affairs said more than $1 billion would be needed to reconstruct the city following its liberation. Read More »

Prior to retiring in January following more than a half-century of government service, Mr. Clapper signed off on an intelligence community assessment accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of meddling in last year's election in a bid to boost Mr. Read More »

Officials of the three countries are also expected to discuss the North Korea nuclear issue in the upcoming Northeast Asian Cooperation Dialogue. Earlier in the news conference, he said he is calling on all nations to "publicly demonstrate to North Korea that there are consequences for their very, very bad behavior". Read More »

Waymo's lawsuit against Uber alleges that Anthony Levandowski, its former employee who decamped and later joined Uber, downloaded more than 14,000 files before leaving Waymo. "Waymo's retreat on three of their four patent claims is yet another sign that they have overpromised and can't deliver", said Chelsea Kohler, an Uber spokeswoman, in an emailed statement. Read More »

Apparently, the answer is yes, as Nintendo confirmed there won't be a Game Over state in the hotly anticipated Switch game Super Mario Odyssey . He basically loses his coins and falls off the screen. In short: it was probably time for the game over screen to go since it doesn't seem to serve any real objective these days. Instead of losing a life, Mario will lose 10 coins every time he "dies". Read More »

However, the move seems to be focussed on positioning its future smartphones as high-end camera devices. More specifically, HMD Global CEO Arto Nummela says that "collaborating with ZEISS is an important part of our commitment to always deliver the very best experience for our customers". Read More »

He said the only step that could halt the process is a legitimate court order or an injunction adding that merely filing a lawsuit is not enough to stop the process. The judge fixed September 29 for the hearing of the said motion. The court presided over by Justice John Tsoho actually rejected Melaye's motion for a temporary injunction restraining INEC from proceeding with the recall process until the determination of suit challenging his recall. Read More »

The market was back to its bullish ways following the smooth implementation of GST, hopes of a pick up in the country's economic grwoth and an above normal monsoon so far, brokers said. Sectors such as FMCG, banking and information technology remained subdued. On the other hand, the S&P BSE consumer durables index fell by 51.76 points, the oil and gas index by 51.07 points and the IT index by 25.78 points. Read More »

The findings also mean that if we're to find any signs of life now on Mars, we'll probably have to dig. To determine whether the compound is a good thing or a bad thing for life, postgraduate student Jennifer Wadsworth and professor Charles Cockell, both of the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy, chose to create a little bit of Mars in the lab to see if a type of common Earthly bacterium-Bacillus subtilis-survived. Read More »

The expansion also adds a new keyword-Lifesteal. The Lich King has also made a decision to bestow players with a new power from beyond the grave: "Lifesteal", a chilling new keyword, heals players for damage dealt. Furthermore, Deathrattle minions are also set to return in a big way for Knights of the Frozen Throne . This is in addition to cards that might not be in the Standard rotation anymore. Read More »

Larsen C is among Antarctica's largest ice shelves but still pales in comparison to the Ross Ice Shelf and Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. At about the same time President Trump announced last month that he was taking the US out of the Paris climate change accord, a vast expanse of ice roughly the size of DE was threatening to break away from an Antarctic ice shelf in yet another sign of global warming. Read More »